Quote Originally Posted by Helena View Post
Hi guys,

Dopamine is the chemical released whenever we feel pleasure.
Most of the things we get addicted to gives us the pleasure through Dopamine. May it be playing a game, or chatting with a particular person daily, all we get at the end is a pleasure with a dopamine hit! And finally we get distracted from what we should actually do and keep wasting our time.

Do you think we really need a Dopamine hit to fullfill our day with happiness or are we just wasting our time on searching for that feel? Share your view.
It's easy to say when we define happiness as a "hit of dopamine". But nothing is so easy as that. May be as you say we are driven by the need to be get that hit of dopamine. But isn't happiness the thing we are looking for forever in life? As far as I know, even love is simulated by Dopamine. Just because of that, we don't ignore it. Had we accepted happiness or pleasure as just the work of dopamine, every one of us would have become a drug addict by now. May be we are a kind of addicts to that chemical. But we're definitely not wasting our time. The incessant search in our minds to be happy is what drives our life. Without that, human race would have been extinct centuries ago.